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  • To the End of the Earth

    The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945

    From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War“Brilliant [and] riveting… a truly great book.”—Gen. David Petraeus • “Triumphant [and] compelling.”—Richard Frank • “McManus is one of the best—if not the best—World War II historians working today.”—World War II magazineThe dawn of 1945 finds a US Army ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • No Mercy from the Japanese

    A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships, 1942–1945

    By the laws of statistics John Lowry should not be here today to tell his story. He firmly believes that someone somewhere was looking after him during those four years. Examine the odds stacked against him and his readers will understand why he hold this view. During the conflict in Malaya and Singapore his regiment lost two thirds of its men. More than three hundred patients and staff in the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Takeover

    Hitler's Final Rise to Power

    From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruinIn the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse. One in three Germans was unemployed. Violence was rampant. Hitler’s National Socialists surged at the polls. Paul von ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Secret Session Speeches

    Series series Winston S. Churchill War Speeches
    This collection of addresses to the House of Commons during WWII provides unique insight into the British Prime Minister’s wartime leadership.During World War II, security was so precarious that the House of Commons was at times forced to meet in secret in order to keep its counsel from reaching the enemy. On five separate occasions between 1940 and 1942, Winston Churchill addressed the secret ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unbroken

    A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street JournalHailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography**On a May ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Racing the Enemy

    Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

    With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story—the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan—Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective.From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement

    by G. C. Peden ...
    Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Pacific

    by Hugh Ambrose ...
    **The New York Times bestselling official companion book to the Emmy® Award-winning HBO® miniseries.Look for The Pacific miniseries, now available to stream on Netflix!**Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Splendid and the Vile

    A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

    by Erik Larson ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis“One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.” ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • D-Day

    June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II

    Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • With the Old Breed

    At Peleliu and Okinawa

    by E.B. Sledge ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary—into terms we mortals can grasp.”—Tom HanksIn The Wall Street Journal, Victor Davis Hanson named With the Old Breed one of the top ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • To Hell and Back

    The Classic Memoir of World War II by America's Most Decorated Soldier

    by Audie Murphy ...
    The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II. Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself.Many decades later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then.Desperate to see action but rejected by both the marines and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Spitfire Pilot

    “A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot” in World War II (The Spectator).Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle, when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealized air conflicts—the Battle of Britain—seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times).When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twelve Desperate Miles

    The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa

    by Tim Brady ...
    The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the trunk of a Chevy, were drafted into service in WWII -- and heroically succeeded in setting the stage for Patton's epic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hitler's American Gamble

    Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War

    A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United StatesBy early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Watchmaker's Daughter

    The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

    by Larry Loftis ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the Florida Book Awards Gold MedalNew York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond

    A Mud Marine's Memoir of the Pacific Island War

    Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Band of Brothers

    E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

    Stephen E. Ambrose’s classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. Featuring a foreword from Tom Hanks.They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Code Name Caesar

    The Secret Hunt for U-Boat 864 During World War II

    In the waning days of World War II, a little-known battle took place under the frozen seas off the coast of Norway . . . and changed the course of the war.In February of 1944, Germany and Japan devised a desperate plan to escape defeat. The Germans would send Japan a submarine—boat U-864—packed with their most advanced rocket and jet aircraft technology. Japan could then reestablish air ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Year of Peril

    America in 1942

    A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War IIThe Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Eagles of Heart Mountain

    A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America

    “One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” —Smithsonian Magazine**For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told “**tale that ultimately stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit” (Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author) about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Stealth

    The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft

    On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here ... Read more

    $13.99 USD